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ChatGPT is a bullshit generator but it can still be amazingly useful

by Arvind Narayanan aisnakeoil.substack.com published 2022-12-06

The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce

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